From the Computational Genetics Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania (www.epistasis.org)

Monday, May 26, 2008

MDR 1.2 Released

We have released version 1.2 of our open-source Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction (MDR) software package. It can be downloaded from here.

This new version includes interaction graphs to complement the existing interaction dendrogram for visualizing interaction information as a way to statistically interpret MDR models and attribute relationships. See our 2006 paper in the Journal of Theoretical Biology for more information about interactions graphs and dendrograms. See also my more recent review in the book Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (email me for a pdf version). This work is inspired by the excellent work of Dr. Aleks Jakulin. See his list of papers on the topic here.

2 Comments:

Working on EDA (and other metaheuristics) myself, its always interesting to see other researcher use them. I'm curious to know how you plan to use these algorithms...

* Firstly, how did you heard about EDA? * Why choose stochastic optimization algorithms instead of deterministic and/or complete ones? * Do you plan to use a specialized framework or to reimplement your own methods? * And finally, how did you plan to validate your final approach?

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Edward Rose Professor of Informatics,
Director of the Institute for Biomedical Informatics, Director of the Division of Informatics in the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology,
Senior Associate Dean for Informatics,
The Perelman School of Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania